Tortuga AgTech Featured in LA Times!
California's strawberry fields may not be forever. Could robots help? BY SAM DEANSTAFF WRITER JULY 26, 2022 5 AM PT In a strawberry field surrounded by strawberry fields on the outskirts of Santa Maria, a team of robots have been picking berries all summer. Each robot, made by a Colorado company called Tortuga AgTech, trundles between the elevated beds on rugged wheels, then stops in front of a plant. An articulated arm maneuvers its sensor array among the leaves; machine vis